colorless
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3.9
- adjective
- /ˈkʌlərləs/
- US
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- The book was filled with colorless descriptions that failed to capture my interest.
The lines clustering around the colorless verb delineating wish to render the actual and natural and sorry in naked objective words, in austere lines.
- The lines clustering around the colorless verb delineating wish to render the actual and natural and sorry in naked objective words, in austere lines.
Examples
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And all the guys you handpicked for me, they were dull, colorless, boring guys.
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"Can you stay?" She shook her head against him, her own face colorless, expressionless.
Fiction book (1993) -
Sandy handed my ad copy back to me and said in a colorless voice, "Yeah, it's perfect."
Fiction book (1990) -
But the New York City school superintendents then were gray and colorless men.
Academic text (1998) -
Old books are drab and colorless, not bright and shiny like the books here.
Fiction book (1992) -
The office was overly bright and colorless: white, metallic, plastic, gray.
Fiction book (1998) -
Ohio was a place of flat, colorless fields, farmers who scarcely spoke, and highways.
Fiction book (1998) -
"I’m not going to make it to that field," said Pinto in a colorless voice.
Fiction book (1990) -
Warden Samuel Norton strolls forth, a colorless man in a grey suit and a church pin in his lapel.
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"Tower was an ugly, colorless column of metal, devoid of aesthetics, consecrated to intellect."
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
31
1.0
Not bright or shiny with weak colour
31
2.8
A thing that has no strong character and few interesting features
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6.1
Dull and showing little energy
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4.2
Not bright or colorful and not lively
20
1.4
Not exciting and likely to make people bored
19
3.6
Without energy or interest and making people feel bored
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7.1
Not having special or interesting features so it does not stand out
8
5.8
A place or thing that has no clear details
7
3.5
Not interesting or exciting
4
3.5
Food that has little or no taste and seems bland
1
5.8
Having nothing special or interesting
1
7.2
Not shiny and showing little energy or life
Dull and showing little energy or interest
Not bright in color and not very interesting
Antonyms
How Interesting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Colorless is made of color ('shade') and the ending -less ('without'), so it literally means 'without color'. That's why we also call a person, film, or book 'colorless' when it seems dull and has no lively or interesting qualities, the opposite of colorful.